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Interpersonal Interaction in Early Childhood Classroom
Introduction
Interpersonal interaction in a pre-school classroom refers to the relationship or involvement that
goes on between the teacher and pupil/s or children amongst themselves in a face-to-face
encounter
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Interpersonal interactions in a pre-school classroom
are important because children get to le6arn new knowledge from the teacher who is the main
custodian of knowledge
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Forms of Interpersonal Interactions in pre-school
There are various forms of interpersonal interactions in a pre-school class
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It is
important to ensure that all these different forms of interaction are used in pre-school since they
foster different forms of learning
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Through
modelling, observation, imitation, dialogue or participation in various tasks with these
socialization agents, children learn to perform new tasks or those that they could not have learnt
on their own
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Interpersonal interactions help children to be confident and to develop as well
as increase their vocabulary
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During interactions in pre-school, the children get an opportunity to acquire and practice
acceptable speech and behaviours
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They similarly develop their
competence in various tasks as they compete or compare themselves with their peers and also get
challenged to be good or even better than them
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i)
Social Skills
These have to do with social competence or capability and values that enable one to live or get
along well with self as well as other people in the society
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Children need to be helped to develop social behaviours that can assist them to cope with
themselves and others in their environment
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Appreciating self or having high self-regard or esteem
Being self-controlled and responsible
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The ability of the child to know or understand other people within his/her environment
will foster peace and harmony with others
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This helps them to be respected by others
and not to be trampled on by them unnecessarily
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The skill of negotiation is important in life because it teaches humility
and thoughtfulness to say the right thing in order to gain favourable response to ones’ benefit
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Decision
making ability is important particularly when one is faced with a difficult task where a specific choice or
decision must be made
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Conflict Resolution Ability
This is the ability to settle disagreements or problems
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Ability to resolve the conflict peacefully helps to create
harmony and restore love or understanding between the two disgruntled parties
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Ethical integrity is an important virtue or value that makes one to be
trusted and depended upon by others
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The capabilities assist the individual to be able to evaluate other
peoples’ attitudes, motives, personality and emotional state thereby helping him/her respond
towards them or a situation appropriately
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When the teacher is for example happy with
children’s actions, they should check to see if the teacher nods in approval, smiles or gives a
thumbs-up gesture
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If children are trained to develop their

perceptual skills, they will be able to avoid actions that make others unhappy
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ii)
Communication or Presentational Skills
These are verbal and non-verbal abilities that children need to acquire in order to be understood
effectively by others
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They also need to use non-verbal forms of communication
in order to present appropriate emotions and emphasize or reinforce the content being presented
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Presentational skills in children are best enhanced during news-telling sessions, story-telling,
riddling and discussions (Bennaars, Otiende and Boisver, 1994)
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Children also need to be reminded that a good communicator looks at their
audience since this helps in making oneself to be understood well by others
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A good communicator is
also a good listener and does not dominate in a conversation
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Listening is also important because it helps one to
be able to know how to respond towards others in a conversation
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They can also be
trained to listen during language drills so that they hear and pronounce the words properly
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As a teacher, you have a responsibility to be firm but friendly to children so that they can be able
to interact with you and other children freely
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You also need to
provide the necessary resources and opportunities for them to perform different tasks so that they
acquire various relevant skills
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In addition, be patient with them by being nonjudgmental
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You should also help children to
learn to set goals for themselves, and also to meet them
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You may use negative reinforcement which entails withdrawing of favours to the child and
punishment when necessary but sparingly so as to minimise discouragement among children
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You should also encourage children to appreciate others
so as to cultivate positive relationships with those within their environment
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Personality is one’s
inherent traits or characteristics
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During the period between birth and 2 years, the child
first develops trust for the primary caregivers who offer nursing care to him/her and later on
extends the trust to other people
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However, if attention is not given at all, the child learns to hate and mistrust those
around him/her
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Praising, scolding or ridiculing remarks to the child results in the child development the
other hand breed shame and doubt
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Between 4 -6 years they are in the initiative versus guilt stage
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They
can for example dress/undress by themselves, clean their face, feed selves with a spoon etc
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They do not need other people to
point out their failure
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Although personality is one’s inherent traits which are difficult to change, they can still be
modified by training or ones’ environment
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However, most of the time, there is a likelihood of
people displaying a mixture of all of them but with one personality type emerging more strongly
and a second one which supports the dominant one being less dominant
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Those with the
personality type described as sanguine, are outgoing, happy and care free, they make friends
easily but also forget them as them quickly especially if their ties are weakened
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They require very little initiation from the
teacher to interact with others
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They are also impatient and not bothered about
people who do not meet their high standard
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Children with melancholic personality type are generally quiet, analytical,
studious, good with numbers or figures, are organised but they get depressed very easily if things
don’t work their way since they are perfectionists
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